Brian H wrote: You might be surprised. The time freed up from fuel-gathering is often rapidly turned into micro-enterprise by people (notably the women). Markets spring up, cell phones appear and start co-ordinating things, etc.
And a basic 5 MW unit can drive literally thousands of residential/micro-enterprise establishments in such areas.
… a recent theme has been such people using small solar panels to provide lights, cell phone charging etc.
There could be areas where even a single FF unit would be expensive overkill at first but cheaper solar panels produced in FF-powered factories would be an affordable option.
